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OnePlus ends its five-year partnership with camera company Hasselblad and plans to develop its own imaging engine called DetailMax Engine for upcoming phones (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/772369/oneplus-and-hasselblad-are-parting-ways

OnePlus and Hasselblad are parting ways
But Oppo and Hasselblad seemingly aren’t.

Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring
https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/717322/wikipedia-attacks-neutrality-history-jimmy-wales

How Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks
How the world’s largest encyclopedia became the factual foundation of the web, but now it’s under attack from the right wing, tech billionaires, and AI.

https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft-newsletter/754647/microsoft-grok-4-roll-out-private-preview-notepad?utm_content=buffer2ce4c&…

Microsoft is cautiously onboarding Grok 4 following Hitler concerns
Microsoft is taking a careful approach with rolling out Grok 4 on Azure AI Foundry. It’s working on a private preview for a handful of customers.

Truth Social launches a Perplexity-powered AI search feature that consistently references Trump-supporting media including Fox News and The Washington Times (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/753863/trump-truth-social-ai-s…

Truth Social’s new AI search engine basically just pushes Fox News
Donald Trump’s media company is beta-testing a new AI search feature on Truth Social that’s seemingly biased towards conservative media sources.

Qualcomm acquires Italian open-source electronics platform Arduino for an undisclosed sum and will retain the Arduino brand; Arduino releases a Pi-like board (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/794452/qualcomm-arduino-acquisition-uno-q
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Qualcomm is acquiring DIY electronics platform Arduino
Qualcomm is acquiring the DIY electronics platform Arduino, and launching a new Uno Q that connects to a new App Lab platform.

OpenAI executive Bill Peebles says Sora users can now stop AI-generated versions of themselves from appearing in certain contexts like videos involving politics (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/792638/sora-provides-bet…

Sora provides better control over videos featuring your AI self
After a week of video slop, OpenAI is putting guardrails in place over how your AI double is used on Sora. 

Sources detail Google's struggles to monetize Google TV, which has been costing the company hundreds of millions of dollars annually and has yet to break even (Janko Roettgers/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/lowpass-newsletter/724970/google-tv-ad…

Google TV’s uncertain future
Google isn’t very good at selling ads for its own smart TV platform, Google TV.

Instagram now lets users repost public Reels and grid posts from other accounts, collected in a designated tab, and rolls out a Snapchat-like maps feature (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/719756/instagram-adds-reposts-feed-rips-off-snap-m…

Instagram adds a reposts feed and rips off Snap Maps
Instagram is adding a TikTok-like repost feature as well as its own version of a Snap Map.

During the GPT-5 livestream, OpenAI showed two charts whose scales were all over the place, with Sam Altman later calling one "a mega chart screwup from us" (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/756444/openai-gpt-5-vibe-graphing-chart-crim…

OpenAI gets caught vibe graphing
During its big GPT-5 livestream, OpenAI showed off a few charts that seemed to have some big mistakes. CEO Sam Altman called one a “screwup.”

A now-deleted GitHub blog post reveals GPT-5, available as gpt-5, gpt-5-mini, gpt-5-nano, and gpt-5-chat with "major improvements" in reasoning, code, and more (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/752091/openai-gpt-5-model-announceme…

OpenAI’s new GPT-5 models announced early by GitHub
OpenAI’s GPT-5 announcement has been leaked early by GitHub. A now-deleted blog post reveals there are four GPT-5 model variants on the way.